You're not alone. I prefer the solid form factor of the 4S over the 5 series. Hopefully, Ivy gets off his asinine ultra-thin kick and puts some solidity back into the product [you'd think so with an edge-to-edge rumor].
So it's impossible for something to be both thin AND solid? I think the iPad Air, iPod touch, and MacBook Air would disagree with you.
You're not alone. I prefer the solid form factor of the 4S over the 5 series. Hopefully, Ivy gets off his asinine ultra-thin kick and puts some solidity back into the product [you'd think so with an edge-to-edge rumor].
As much as I like the 4S for its glassy solidity, I also look forward to a time when I can snap up a 5s cheap, mostly because of the camera, but also because of its weight and thinness. Minimum mass needed to get the job done is always the best engineering principle.
My 3G and 4 are permenanrly plugged into cars as iPods, my 5, I gave to my wife, I use a 5s, my kids use my old Galazy Nexus, a Nexus 4 and my Galaxy S4 is a spare.
Older than that have been sent to India and Fiji via various contacts.
i think i'm putting mine to good use. my current phone is a 5s. i have a 3GS, 4, and 5. the unlocked 3GS gets loaned to friends who are traveling out of the country. so far it's been to turkey, spain, czechoslovakia, england, and canada. the unlocked 4 is used primarily when i'm traveling out of the country. i use the 5 as an IP camera when i'm away, and both the 4 and 5 are put to good use as extra cameras as i practice my multi-camera editing techniques. and the 5 is my backup, just in case ...
So you have lent an iPhone to people that have traveled to a country that hasn't existed since 1993?
With iPod Touches being as much as a damn phone, my old iPhone is my kids new iPod Touch. With a google phone number free on wifi, she uses that to talk to family and friends and it stores a lot of songs and movies on it's 64GB drive. I'm sure all those phones are definitely not being wasted.
I'm with jfanning on this one, when someone says they've been to Czechoslovakia with a phone made not more than four years ago I'm left wondering, did they go to the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, to both countries or to neither?
I haven't if the point of his post is that his old 3GS is being reused, for want of a better term, as a travel phone and has proven itself to be still versatile and useful wherever in the globe it may be.
My issue is that the inaccuracy undermines confidence in believing the post.
I haven't if the point of his post is that his old 3GS is being reused, for want of a better term, as a travel phone and has proven itself to be still versatile and useful wherever in the globe it may be.
My issue is that the inaccuracy undermines confidence in believing the post.
Here we go.
Cretin's Law in full effect.
"Cretins Law - As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a civilized conversation based on the ORIGINAL TOPIC approaches zero.."
[quote name="GTR" url="/t/162027/iphone-upgraders-leave-nearly-13-5b-in-old-hardware-to-collect-dust/30#post_2471502"] Here we go. Cretin's Law in full effect. [/QUOTE]
The greatest irony being your post quoting Cretin's law moved the discussion towards that zero probability than my previous post contemplating what happens with old iPhone hardware.
So, GTR, are you keeping the discussion civilised?
The greatest irony being your post quoting Cretin's law moved the discussion towards that zero probability than my previous post contemplating what happens with old iPhone hardware.
So, GTR, are you keeping the discussion civilised?
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Originally Posted by dasanman69
The dilemma with mentioning Cretins law is that it makes the poster a cretin.
I realise you gentlemen would love to get in to a pointless argument possibly about country locations, histories, timelines, people of interest, their achievements, word pronunciation, and spelling of said countries but how about we return to the original topic of the thread about people loving their devices so much that they regularly continue to use them?
If anybody would love to discuss other anal-retentive matters, please feel free to contact me in private.
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Not I.
I follow the principles of minimisation so well that I make Steve Jobs look like a hoarder in this photo!
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You're not alone. I prefer the solid form factor of the 4S over the 5 series. Hopefully, Ivy gets off his asinine ultra-thin kick and puts some solidity back into the product [you'd think so with an edge-to-edge rumor].
So it's impossible for something to be both thin AND solid? I think the iPad Air, iPod touch, and MacBook Air would disagree with you.
As much as I like the 4S for its glassy solidity, I also look forward to a time when I can snap up a 5s cheap, mostly because of the camera, but also because of its weight and thinness. Minimum mass needed to get the job done is always the best engineering principle.
Older than that have been sent to India and Fiji via various contacts.
So you have lent an iPhone to people that have traveled to a country that hasn't existed since 1993?
Don't be a jerk.
I'm with jfanning on this one, when someone says they've been to Czechoslovakia with a phone made not more than four years ago I'm left wondering, did they go to the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, to both countries or to neither?
I'm with jfanning on this one...
Then you BOTH missed the point of his post.
Guility as charged. I have every iPod, every iPhone and every iPad and many, many Macs in a cupboard. I am a incurable Appleholic.
This is the only thread where we can boast of how many Apple products we have and not be called trolls!
So here goes:
iPod 3rd Gen
iPod Photo
iMac 27" late-2009
iPhone
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S
iPhone 5
iPhone 5s
MacBook Pro 15" early-2011
Mac Mini 2006
2 Mac Minis 2013
MacBook Air 2012
Apple TV
iPad
iPad 2
iPad 3rd Gen.
iPad 4th Gen.
iPad Air
iPad Mini
Of course, not all of them are in use!!
My issue is that the inaccuracy undermines confidence in believing the post.
I haven't if the point of his post is that his old 3GS is being reused, for want of a better term, as a travel phone and has proven itself to be still versatile and useful wherever in the globe it may be.
My issue is that the inaccuracy undermines confidence in believing the post.
Here we go.
Cretin's Law in full effect.
"Cretins Law - As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a civilized conversation based on the ORIGINAL TOPIC approaches zero.."
I'd love to get my hands on a StarTAC.
Here we go.
Cretin's Law in full effect.
[/QUOTE]
The greatest irony being your post quoting Cretin's law moved the discussion towards that zero probability than my previous post contemplating what happens with old iPhone hardware.
So, GTR, are you keeping the discussion civilised?
The dilemma with mentioning Cretins law is that it makes the poster a cretin.
The greatest irony being your post quoting Cretin's law moved the discussion towards that zero probability than my previous post contemplating what happens with old iPhone hardware.
So, GTR, are you keeping the discussion civilised?
The dilemma with mentioning Cretins law is that it makes the poster a cretin.
I realise you gentlemen would love to get in to a pointless argument possibly about country locations, histories, timelines, people of interest, their achievements, word pronunciation, and spelling of said countries but how about we return to the original topic of the thread about people loving their devices so much that they regularly continue to use them?
If anybody would love to discuss other anal-retentive matters, please feel free to contact me in private.
Then you BOTH missed the point of his post.
Lovely, more irony from you GTR about missing the point.
The point of the article is about how much hardware isn't used but left to collect dust.
Pooch was pointing out how his experience is counter to the article's findings.
So, spare us your sanctimonious lectures about being civil, on topic and being anally-retentive.